The International Avenue Design Initiative (IADI) was formed by a partnership between the International Avenue BRZ, the University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design, and the City of Calgary with a mission to create a vision and strategy for the redevelopment of the International Avenue corridor (17th Avenue SE).
Stories from the Fields > Calgary, Alberta | 50th Street Urban Centre
Calgary, Alberta | 50th Street Urban Centre
Stories from the Fields > Calgary, Alberta | Envisioning International Blvd.
Calgary, Alberta | Envisioning International Blvd.
The International Avenue Design Initiative (IADI) was formed by a partnership between the International Avenue BRZ, the University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design, and the City of Calgary with a mission to create a vision and strategy for the redevelopment of the International Avenue corridor (17th Avenue SE).
Stories from the Fields > Chula Vista, California | Third Avenue
Chula Vista, California | Third Avenue
The Third Avenue Streetscape Master Plan is a city redevelopment project to revitalize and improve the pedestrian experience on Chula Vista’s historic Main Street, Third Avenue.
Stories from the Fields > Cochrane Lake | Rocky View, Alberta
Cochrane Lake | Rocky View, Alberta
PlaceMakers (operating originally as T-Six Urbanists) were engaged in early 2008 to develop a Hamlet Plan for Cochrane Lake through an interactive on-site week-long public design charrette. Cochrane Lake is a small rural settlement just north of the City of Cochrane, and within the one-million acre rural Municipal District of Rocky View, Alberta.
Stories from the Fields > Early County 2055 | Georgia
Early County 2055 | Georgia
Charles B. Rice grew up in Early County, Georgia, and moved away to make his fortune. Upon returning, he was struck by the downtrodden state of the county, and undertook a 50-year visioning effort to turn things around. Recognizing the expansive scope of his challenge, he engaged PlaceMakers to facilitate an economic development visioning process characterized by wide community engagement, master planning, a form-based SmartCode customization, and ongoing guidance in how to implement ambitious efforts in a climate of economic disinvestment.
Stories from the Fields > Fitchburg, Wisconsin
Fitchburg, Wisconsin
Fitchburg has the unique advantage of lying between the time-tested urbanity of Madison and the inspiring landscape of the agrarian countryside. Citizens have access to either in a matter of minutes. But what’s missing in its current array of suburban housing and commercial areas is the appeal and practical performance of more compact, walkable neighborhoods. The Fitchburg SmartCode District aims to empower a more complete community with the full range of living, working, and playing environments.
Stories from the Fields > Heritage Station | Calgary, Alberta
Heritage Station | Calgary, Alberta
The City of Calgary retained PlaceMakers (operating, at the time, as T-Six Urbanists) to facilitate a multi-day onsite public design charrette and prepare a Station Area Master Plan for the Heritage LRT station. With the emergence of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) practices over the past decade, the City of Calgary adopted TOD guidelines in 2004 triggering redevelopment interest around a number of the City’s existing LRT stations. The Heritage TOD planning process was prompted after a Calgary Transit decision to move their Victoria Park transit offices into the underutilized Heritage Station site along the south LRT line.
Stories from the Fields > Kona, Hawai'i | Honokohau Village
Kona, Hawai’i | Honokohau Village
Honokohau Village offers up a whole new way of planning for the County of Hawai’i Planning Department, the focus of which is an 80-acre TOD in Kona that includes the new West Hawai’i Civic Center. But the broader aim is educational.
Stories from the Fields > Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Unlike many — if not most — American cities, Lawrence, Kansas, has a vibrant, intact downtown. The fringes of the city, however, had been under increasing development pressure in recent years, leading local officials to undertake an intense planning and coding process to manage developing sprawl.
They turned to the SmartCode, and PlaceMakers, to create a parallel regulating ordinance where alternate outcomes were possible.
Stories from the Fields > Leander, Texas
Leander, Texas
When Leander, Texas, became the Austin region’s fastest growing municipality, they did what any city would do: They looked to similar and surrounding places for guidance. Unfortunately, what they found was disheartening. Sprawl, it seemed, was the adverse consequence of rapid growth. And they didn’t want it.
So they came to us. And, for the most part, didn’t even have to pay for it.
